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A Sylvester Stallone-less ‘Rambo’ reboot is ‘Criminal’ Posted: 28 Oct 2016 12:00 AM PDT “Rambo III” Japanese Theatrical Poster Back in January, it was reported (via Variety) that Sylvester Stallone would be retiring from playing Rambo. "It's like fighters that go back for one last round and get clobbered. Leave it to someone else," said Stallone. "There's nothing left. When they asked me to do another Rambo, I said, 'If I can't do better than I did last time, and I can't, then why'?", he added. Prior to his statement, Stallone had numerous ideas for a Rambo V, the follow up to 2008’s 4th Rambo movie. Some of those ideas pitted Rambo against experimental Universal Soldier-like enemies; then there was the idea in which Rambo was out to rescue a kidnapped girl from sex traffickers and drug dealers near the Mexican border. In 2013, producer Avi Lerner conspired to turn Rambo into a TV series with Sylvester Stallone reprising his role as John Rambo for television, an idea that ultimately fizzled. Then in 2015, Deadline reported that Fox locked in a deal for Rambo: New Blood, a TV series written by Jeb Stuart (Die Hard). Rambo: New Blood will explore the complex relationship between Rambo (not played by Stallone) and his son, J.R., an ex-Navy SEAL. Today, news comes from THR that Rambo: New Blood is still happening – not as a TV series, but as a movie – and apparently Jeb Stuart has separated from the project for whatever reason. Instead, Nu Image/Millennium Films has tapped Brooks McLaren (How It Ends) to pen the script and Ariel Vromen (Criminal) to direct the feature. “Titled Rambo: New Blood, the new reboot would not see Stallone return as the action hero, like he did in Millennium's 2008 outting, but would see a younger actor inhabit the role. The company is looking at Rambo as a character akin to James Bond,” THR reports. We’ll be on top of this for sure. For now, we leave you with this classic trailer:

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